Alleged serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards was arrested in 2016 and charged with the murder of three women.

February 20th 2019

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Bradley Robert Edwards has pleaded not guilty to a range of charges, including the murders of Ciara Glennon, 27, Jane Rimmer, 23, and Sarah Spiers, 18, who were abducted from Claremont’s night-life strip in 1996 and 1997.Source:Supplied

The accused Claremont serial killer’s obsessive fetish for women’s clothing and rape fantasies escalated into the alleged murders of three women, a court has heard.

He also faces charged related to the alleged sexual assaults of two teenage girls in 1988 and 1995.

State prosecutor Carmen Barbagallo argued that the alleged abduction of a 17-year-old girl in Karrakatta in 1995 was “strikingly similar” to “unusual and depraved” rape fantasy stories found on a computer owned by Bradley Robert Edwards.

Ms Barbagallo started day two of a pre-trial directions hearing on Wednesday by arguing that the stories should be admissible in the upcoming judge-only trial.

Bradley Robert Edwards has pleaded not guilty to three murders, dubbed the Claremont serial killings.Source:Supplied

The stories, titled “Chloe’s story” and “Sophie’s story”, were found on a computer seized by Edwards home in 2016, along with extreme pornography and almost 4000 porn website addresses.

Ms Barbagallo told the court that the accused’s early alleged attacks on women and his fetish for women’s underwear “evolved” and “escalated” into the alleged “murdering of three girls”.

“There was an escalation involved,” she said.

“The circumstances, the location, the geography is just window dressing. It’s the manner in which he undertakes the attacks. It’s the behaviour he engages in on each occasion.

“The use of the fabric or cloth to put over the mouth … that is really an unusual feature. These stories of women being sexually assaulted … they are obtained against their will and often involve sex assaults with an implication the women will not be leaving.”